The History Business, LLC

William R. Mitchell, Jr. - President and Owner
1421 Peachtree Str. NE, Unit 410
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
PH: (404)-875-0603
email: wrmsaf@bellsouth.net
www.wrmsaf.org

Bill Mitchell at home working on one of his books.

 Landmarks, The Architecture of Thomasville and Thomas County, Georgia.
Published August 1980.
Award of Merit, The American Association for State and Local History, 1981

Landmark Homes of Georgia, 1733-1983.
Published November1 982.
Award of Outstanding Achievement in the field of Preservation, 1983.
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

 Lewis Edmund Crook, Jr., Architect 1898-1967:
"A Twentieth-Century Traditionalist in the Deep South."*
Published November 1984.

 The Architecture of William Frank McCall, Jr., FAIA.
Published December 1985.

Classic Savannah, "Architecture, Interiors, and Gardens."*
Published Fall 1987.

 From Plantation to Peachtree, "The Victorian Legacy."
Published Fall 1987.

 

 Gardens of Georgia
Published Fall 1989.
Certificate of Merit, 1989, The Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.

 Classic Atlanta*
Published Fall 1991.
Citation of Excellence, 1992, The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

 

William R. Mitchell, Jr. Publications as of Sept. 2004

I conceived the name of my firm in 1977:  incorporating it in 1984 when I published an architectural monograph, under that label, Lewis Edmund Crook,  Architect.  The design above comes from that book, the swag was designed by Lewis Crook and the Greek-key frets on either side of the design is a Crook signature. In 1998, when I founded the non-profit, Southern Architecture Foundation, Inc., I changed the legal status of the firm to a limited liability corporation (LLC).  I have published numerous books in which this appears on the copyright page: "conceived and initiated by William R. Mitchell, Jr., for the History Business, Atlanta".  Among these are Edward Vason Jones, Architect, Connoisseur, and Collector, in 1995, and J. Neel Reid, Architect, in 1997.  A current project on this sort is a series of publications for Keith Summerour and Associates, Architects.  For further information regarding this and other projects see the Publications list below.  The publications marked with an asterisk (*) are available through Golden Coast Publishing Company.  I am called on for research projects of various kinds and to give lectures on my publications in the field of architectural history. 

The Residential Architecture of H. Sprott Long and Associates*
Published Fall 1991.

 A Continuing Tradition, Wm Frank McCall, Jr. 1914-1991*
Published Fall 1992.

Classic New Orleans*
Published Fall 1993.

 Edward Vason Jones, Architect, Connoisseur, and Collector*
Published Fall 1995.
Outstanding Achievement Award, 1996, The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

J. Neel Reid, Architect, of Hentz, Reid & Adler*
Published Fall 1997.

 An Anniversary Celebration of Seventy Homes
Published Fall 1999.

The Architecture of James Means*
Published Fall 2001.

Southern Architecture Illustrated*
Published Fall 2002.

Porta I
Published Fall 2000.
Porta II
Published Fall 2003.

For Summerour & Associates
Architects
(A monograph in progress, 2005)